Support the scientific revolution: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB What is the dividing line between the feeling of sitting in a fluorescently lit cubicle vs flying down the Gold Coast, sea foam in your hair and music in your ears? Obviously almost everything, but where is the root of the subjective emotional experience, the qualia, come from? Andrés Gómez Emilsson, director of research at the Qualia Research Institute, suggests that it lives in the harmonic patterns of the brain. Enjoyable experiences can be understood as consonant resonances, negative ones as dissonant, disorganized ones. He and his colleagues are working on a mathematical model of experience - both the mundane and the transcendent, as they are informed in their work by the hyperbolic geometry of DMT and other psychedelic substances. The goal, at the end of the day, is to create a functional map of human experience so complete that it can help eliminate unnecessary suffering. #consciousness #consciousplanet #neuroscience 00:00 Go! 00:01:26 The cartesian map of Valence vs Arousal 00:08:02 Have these harmonics been observed in people's brains? 00:10:24 What are the resonances that define positive states? 00:11:30 Do these harmonic states correlate to behavior? 00:14:51 The neurotech approach to valence 00:19:27 What's the mechanism by which sound helps people process traumatic experiences? 00:23:32 Resonant mechanisms of antidepressants 00:26:51 How does this relate to transcranial magnetic stimulation? 00:28:40 Are 'valence' and 'feeling' interchangeable? 00:31:41 Are the resonant patterns of valence sufficient to induce the experience? 00:38:50 The three pillars of the QRI 00:41:10 Localizing most of the world's suffering to a few experiences 00:43:03 Dolors: quantifiable units of suffering? 00:45:16 Is there an objective scale for pain and suffering? 00:48:05 Are you in search of offering purified experience? 00:50:28 Do drug laws get in the way of experimenting on consciousness? 00:52:34 Can we learn from other people's psychedelic experiences, or do we have to have them ourselves? 00:55:45 How fleeting is the experience? Can you bring something back? 00:59:17 How do you learn to have positive psychedelic experiences? 01:01:51 How do psychedelics tie back to reducing unecessary suffering? 01:04:53 How accessible is ultrabliss? 01:08:43 Does a lack of fear mean a lack of self-preservation? Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying microbial communication at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting and exploring the woods. Michael Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671